Details
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Feature Request
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Minor
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3.1-m1
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None
Description
The Eclipse "Drools Builder" is validating every Excel (.xls) in my rules project.
Apparently this feature was added to 3.1-M1 by Kris. I really like the idea of validating decision tables in Eclipse, my issue is that we have FIT tests (in Excel) in a separate source folder in our "rules project". These .xls files are falsely being identified as decision tables with a ton of problems. Validation also seems to take much longer than it does with the 3.0.x branch (like from 30 seconds in 3.0 to to 5 minutes in 3.1 !?!?). Though the two issues may be related.
A common way of dealing with this problem in Eclipse is to allow for ant-like "source path include/exclude" patterns.
i.e. exclude test/*/.xls
For that matter it would be nice to have the same thing for standard DRL files. The validation of a large rule base can take some time and randomly results in exceptions much of the time. Once I've tested and verified a set of rules I could (optionally) exclude them from validation.